You have first to experience what you want to express.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.

You’re not a creature in body.You exist as the stars exist, participating in their stillness, their immensity.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.